When it became clear that venture capitalist Tim Draper's Six Californias initiative had enough signatures to get on the ballot last month, the reaction seemed split evenly between people making fun of Six Californias and people who were angry about Six Californias.

The snark seemed to be the loudest from the state of Silicon Valley, which encompasses San Francisco and has borders at the Golden Gate Bridge, south as far as Monterey, and east to include Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

Am I alone in welcoming our new Silicon Valley overlords? In one fell swoop, this plan to split California into easier-to-digest portions could eject members of the band Starship from our state, keep Seattle fans from buying up our 49ers tickets, and make it six times easier to name state parks and bridges after Emperor Norton.

And even if the initiative isn't passed, at least it gets people talking about government. Is our legislature properly organized? Are big problems better solved by smaller communities? Is it time for a discussion about hood-mounted weaponry on California automobiles?

"Have a say in what your state becomes!"

That's what it says, right there in bold print on the Six Californias website. (Actually the print is kind of a light gray. And we added the exclamation point.)

I've taken up the cause, and brainstormed some thoughts about our future state of Silicon Valley. A few of the challenges ahead, tackled point by point ...

The governor

Gavin Newsom's relatively new Marin County residency puts him in North California, the state directly above us, along with Guy Fieri and Sammy Hagar. (Newsom's future lieutenant governor, and chief of protocol?) This leaves the race for Silicon Valley governor wide open. There are plenty of intriguing choices ...

-- Jerry Brown: He'll probably be 95 by the time this makes it to voters, then gets passed by state legislators and admitted by Congress. But are you going to bet against him?

-- Ed Lee: We're not sure he could even get his current job back right now, but Rose Pak needs a candidate.

-- Jean Quan: Does this new state have ranked choice voting? Please tell me it doesn't have ranked choice voting ...

-- Marc Benioff: Probably the richest guy in the state whom the dwindling Silicon Valley middle class hates the least.

-- Siri: The film "Her" about human/operating system romance has assuaged some of the "Terminator" fears about the prospect of an AI legislator. Siri for governor in 2032!

State capitol

Our first order of business: imposing eminent domain and using Draper's home as an annex to store files and power-wash state electric vehicles. We all have to make sacrifices! Next we must find a capitol building. This is not as easy as it sounds.

-- San Francisco City Hall: It already looks like a more opulent, gold-plated version of the current California state capitol. The clear front-runner.

-- Benicia: OK, it's actually just over the state line in North California, but Benicia Capitol State Historic Park was the California capitol for 13 months in 1853 and 1854. They've been biding their time for 160 years for another chance. So let's annex it.

-- The former Solyndra building: Now owned by Seagate. (We're beginning to really enjoy this eminent domain thing.) The building, in Fremont, is cursed, but power bills will be low.

-- Levi's Stadium: Parking is a problem, but we hear it has good vegan food. Rent should be free 355 days of the year.

-- The Google barge: A floating state capitol! Pretty sure that was a plot point in the Kevin Costner post-apocalyptic blockbuster "Waterworld."

Legalization

What's the point of having a Six Californias if you can't break the rules? We'll leave it to one of the other states to create a "The Purge"-style free-for-all where murder is legal. Here are our suggestions for the first laws to come off the books.

-- Marijuana: For all intents and purposes, marijuana is already legal in San Francisco and Oakland, so this is a wasted choice. Forget we mentioned it.

-- Intellectual property theft: Intellectual property always has seemed less about who's right and more about who has the better lawyers anyway. It's like I said once in a song I wrote: "Yesterday. All our troubles seemed so far away."

-- Fireworks/moonshine: The good news, firefighters? We're letting you keep your pensions. The bad news? The government's iron rule over Roman candles and homemade moonshine distilleries is now over.

-- Double parking: I'm in favor of relaxing some driving laws, as long as there's a system of checks and balances. Which brings us to ...

-- Dashboard-mounted rocket-propelled grenades: I actually support eliminating automatic weapon sales and strengthening gun laws in Silicon Valley. Except for the freeways, where I believe every citizen should have the right to neutralize autos that slow down so their drivers can get a better look at a car that overheated.

Passive-aggressive xenophobe maneuver

Now that Silicon Valley is the wealthiest and arguably most powerful state in the Californias, the quest for domination will begin. It's inevitable that Silicon Valley leaders will want to shut every other state out, while simultaneously profiting/acquiring their stuff. Some ideas ...

-- Giant wall surrounding Silicon Valley: It will be a very aesthetically pleasing wall, like the ones surrounding the gated communities in Blackhawk.

-- $50 Golden Gate Bridge toll: I can't stress how much I love the fact that Draper left Marin County on the other side of the Silicon Valley border. That's like leaving your snobby eldest daughter out of the will and giving her share to the cat.

-- Claiming the 415 area code: Marin County gives us all the 415 numbers back. In return, we'll let them keep the Larkspur ferry and any existing Peet's coffee outlets in Ross, Mill Valley and Corte Madera.

-- New Ride the Ducks route: To free up traffic and annoy residents less, tour buses are now limited to traveling between Pier 39, Danielle Steel's house and Alcatraz.

-- Acquisition of other states' sports teams: We'll start by purchasing the Dodgers and moving them to Santa Cruz (to bypass San Francisco's territorial rights), then acquire Larry Ellison's Redwood City Clippers and the San Leandro Kings. Be grateful, West California, we're leaving you with the L.A. KISS arena football team.

State flag symbol

-- Space Invaders alien: Space Invaders was actually invented and initially manufactured in Japan. But that's not what it's going to say in the Silicon Valley elementary school history books ...

-- Muni worm: The flag would say "SV" with the orange Muni worm logo. Second choice: "Silicon Valley" using a font matching the lettering on the Cow Palace.

-- Calvin urinating on the state of California: It's a long shot, but I really hope that Tim Draper, father of our Six Californias: a) owns a 2003 Ford F-150; and a) already has this sticker on the back window.

-- Foil-wrapped burrito: We're thinking a flying burrito in the foreground, with a map of the taco trucks in Oakland's Fruitvale District in the back.

-- Chuck E. Cheese: Yes, selling the symbol on the flag to the highest bidder is a crass commercial move. But that giant wall around Silicon Valley isn't going to pay for itself ...